Ladder bracket



1935- 4 l. E. HOGELIN Y 2,000,483

LADDER BRACKET Filed Oct. 20, 1954 s Sheets-Sheet 1 N 2/ /4 76' F m 1 I K J zz a M Inventor P [ET/Yagehm Attorney May 7, 1935. E, HQGELIN 2,000,483

- LADDER BRACKET Filed Oct. 20, 1934 a Sheets-Sheet 2 Inventor Attorney Patented May 7,1935 2,000,483

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE LADDER BRACKET Isaac E. Hogelin, Guthrie Center, Iowa Application October 20, 1934, Serial No. 749,297

1 Claim. (01. 304-34) This invention appertains to new and useful I3 of the bail l4, under which a platform board improvements in ladders and more particularly can be slid for rest upon the bracket. to a bracket for installation on a ladder for the The plate II also has an opening [5 therein for purpose of supporting workmens platforms. receiving the ring l6 and from this ring [6 ex- 5 The principal object of the present invention tends the chain I! which is looped through the 5 is to provide a reinforced ladder bracket, which key slide formed end portion l8 of the wire hook when employed with a pair of adjacent ladders construction and referred to by numeral [9. are capable of supporting a workmens platform Suitable means can be employed for taking up having a considerable greater load than is possiand letting out on the loop of the chain I1 ble to sustain on present day platforms and ladthrough the keyway l8. The hook I9 is to be 10 der brackets. engaged over the second rung above the rung During the course of the following specification ver which engages the hook 20, this hook 20 and Claim Other important Objects d advam being of wire construction and of general U-shape tages 0f the invention Will become pp to with its leg portions provided with offsets as at the a c-c to provide indentures for receiving the lad- 15 In h drawm slder rungs while the free end portions of the leg F gu e 1 represents a fragmentary front portions of this U-shaped hook are formed vational view of a ladder equipped with the novel t loops 2| hi h t nd through apertured bracket. lugs 2222 on the front side of the front bar 8 20 Figure 2 represents a vertical sectional view of the bracket 20 throughthe ladder Figure 11 looking at the Obviously when desired, the bracket can be bracket 111 Side elevatlonreadily elevated as the painters are required to Figure represents a top P1511 View of the move up the side of a building, and obviously in bracket Wlth the ladder engagmg means view of the reinforced character and construc- 25 f tion of this bracket a considerable load can be 25 Figure 4 represents an enlarged cross sectional Supported gfi taken Substamlany on the hue of While the foregoing specification sets forth the i gg 5 represents a fragmentary top plan invention in specific terms,' it is to be understood e, i an view of the forward end portion of the bracket. 2 3: :21? 123 g z sggg i z g 30 Figure 6 represents a fragmentary perspective view of one end of the platform sustaining bail. gigg spmt of the mventmn as manned here Figure '7 represents a fragmentary detailed secfional View of the chain I Iavmg descr bed the invention, what is Referring to the drawings wherein like nuclalmed as new 35 In combination with a ladder having rungs, a fabricated bracket for supporting a platform, said fabricated bracket including spaced par- The bracket consists of the arallel channel and members connected by means of 40 iron members 88 connected iri termediately by trauy disposed bafse parallel transverse members 40 braces on each side of the transverse members the paranet channel Irons are of substantially U-shape having diverging supstantlany U Shaped brace members [0-H] sides, the light portion of each brace being conare mterposed between h forward and rear nected to the outer side of the transverse mem- Ward members 88 t t ends ,each of these bers and the free end of the brace connected to brace members 10 consisting of a bight portion a the inner Side of the end members, a pivotauy and diverging leg members b b Whlch extend mounted hook at one end of the bracket for enforwardly and rearwardly and abut the edge porgaging an immediate rung f the ladder a chain tions of the forward and rearward bars 88. extending fr m the opposite end of the bracket The brace members ID are also of channel iron and provided t a hook t t end for engaging 50 construction. an elevated rung of the ladder, and a swingable Secured to the intermediate portion of the bar bail on the bracket for engaging over and retain- 8 is the upstanding plate I I while on the forward ing a. platform on the said bracket.

8 h l te I2, both of these plates ll-|2 bar 15 t e p a ISAAC E. HOGELIN.

merals designate like parts, it will be seen that the ladder consists of side rails 5-5 connected by the usual rungs B.

55 have openings therein for receiving the pintle 

